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The vertical wire drawn next to the vertical capacitor shorts the two terminals of the capacitor. Any current flowing through this circuit segment will flow through the vertical wire and completely bypass the vertical capacitor due to the short. This means you can ignore the shorted capacitor -- it has no effect on the circuit.
In "real life", a circuit diagram would not normally include a permanent wire connecting both ends of a capacitor. A short circuit here means that there is no resistance (impedance) between the two terminals of the shorted capacitor. The vertical wire drawn next to the vertical capacitor shorts the two terminals of the capacitor.
By having their shorted terminals, the voltage thereof is zero (more precisely, the potential difference between them), so that this element is not operational in the circuit, and can be removed for analysis. The other two capacitors are in series, hence that:
To do this experiment, you will need the following: Large-value capacitors are required for this experiment to produce time constants slow enough to track with a voltmeter and stopwatch. CAUTION: Be warned that most large capacitors are of the electrolytic type, and they are polarity sensitive!
You can reset the capacitor back to a voltage of zero by shorting across its terminals with a piece of wire. The time constant (τ) of a resistor-capacitor circuit is calculated by taking the circuit resistance, R, and multiplying it by the circuit capacitance, C. For a 1 kΩ resistor and a 1000 µF capacitor, the time constant is 1 second.
Initially the capacitor is uncharged and hence has no voltage drop across it (it acts like a wire or “short circuit”). This means that the full voltage rise of the battery is dropped across the resistor, and hence current must be flowing in the circuit (VR = IR).
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build capacitor charging and discharging circuits and learn how to calculate the RC time constant of resistor-capacitor circuits.
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